My testing sandbox server is running on an ancient Dell Optiplex 280 minitower, which has a P4 processor and 2gb of ram. Â Its been chugging along placidly on Ubuntu 10.04LTS. Â The 12.04LTS version has been popping up for a bit, and it seemed like it was being reported as a very solid release.
The install running in my VirtualBox partition went smoothly enough, but that was only a leap from 11.x to 12.04. Â Upgrading from 10.04 is a couple of levels to jump, so the possibility for problems increases.
So with some amount of trepidation I decided to run the upgrade process on the 10.04 sandbox. If the upgrade should barf completely, its not a tremendous loss.  If it works, the 12.04LTS version is supposed to be good through 2017(if I recall the upgrade notes correctly).
The upgrade seems to have been completely successful, with zero impact on the test bed. Â Sweeeeeet….. The 10.04LTS was mostly a plain vanilla install, but its nice that it made the leap with so little intervention.
This upgrade went far more easily than a prior upgrade(from 8.10 to 9.04). Â Very happy to see the Ubuntu developers have made the upgrade process so user friendly.
Very. Â Nice. Â Work.
So now the file server is good to go and can remain stable for the foreseeable future. Â Time to get back to hacking up some web apps for graphing the Reverse Beacon network data extracts.
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